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fiances, refulfced more from a want of energy' in the Continental government, than a defi ciency of means in the particular fta|C3,; that the iuefijcacy of the wan£ , of an adequate authority in the cr, from Mpartiai compliance with the requi- j fftions of Congress in some of the fiates, and from a failure of punctuality in others, while they tended to damp the zeal of those who were more willing te exert thetnfelves, serv ed alfo* to accumulate the expences of the war, and to firuftrate the belt concerted plans ; *nd thatthe difeouragement occ'afioii'ed by the complicated difficulties and embarrassments, ir. which our affairs were by this means in volved, would have long ago produced the dissolution of any army less patient, less vir tuous, and less than that I had the honor to command.—But while I men tion those things which are notorious fads 4 as the defers of our federal conftitutian, par ticularly in the prosecution of a war, I beg it may be underfiood, that as I have ever taken a pleasure in gratefully acknowledging the assistance and fttpport I have derived from •very clals of citizens ; so lhall I always be happy to do justice to the unparalleled exer tions of the individual fiates, on many inre refting occasions. I have thus freely disclosed what I wiflied to make known before I furremJered up my public trust to those who committed it to me; the talk is now accomplished ; I now bid adieu to your Excellency, as the Chief Magifirate of Vour state; at the fame time, I bid a lart farewell to the cares of office, and all the employments of public life. It remains, then, to be my final and only request, that your Excellency will communi cate these sentiments to your Legillature, at their next meeting; and that they may be considered as the legacy of one who has ar dently wished, on all occasions, to be ufefui to his country, and who, even in the fiiade of retirement, will not fail to implore the divine benedidion upon ifi I now make it my earned prayer, that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in his holy protedion ; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of fhbordination and obedience to go vernment j to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one .another, for their fellow-ci tizens of the United States at large; and, particularly for their brethren who have served in .the field ; and, finally, that he would ntoff graciously be pfeafed to difpole us all to do juftice,’to love mercy, and to demean our selves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the charaderi ftics of the Divine Author of our blessed re ligion ; without an Rumble imitation of whose in these things, we can never#hope to be a happy nation. ’ ' • I have the honor to be, with much efteetn and refped,. Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient, and most humble Servant, . G. WASHINGTON. ilis Excellency Benjamin Harri/on, Efq* Governor of tbo State of Virginia, O N D ON, March 18. BY the last mail from France intelligence was received (the authenticity as well as the probability of which, however, is doubt ed, that the French Court had received an overland efprefs from India, with the im portant advice, that in the beginning of De cember last, on the arrival of the accounts sent from England of a likelihood of a rupture with France, the Governor of Madras took dadden possession of Pondicherry. It is further said, that authentic intelligence has been received by administration, that Sir Archibald Camp!.ell took Pondicherry three days after the arrival o£the courier, who ear ned the di [patches announcing the probability of a war with France. How the French Ca binet may rehffi this, we pretend not to fay ; of the fad there is no doubt. The Fiench are, from undoubted authori ty fitting out a fleet of fix Jail of the line to c, "* u/e the Mediterranean, the eufuing fum mor. They are all ready to fail. This ju te igenre has given alarm to administration, w avc determined to be guarded against any attempts in that quarter. It is likewise • >. strongly conje&ured that feme French men of war arc about to fail for the Weft-Indies. By private letters received onTuefday from Flandere, we are informed that the famous Blanchard is dead, and what is very extraor , dinary, he died in bis bed. We can airert, on pretty good authority, that Mr. Haftings' trial will be farther poft p«ned, Ihortly after the Court next meets The lawyers in his imereti, have decided, 'that this it a very good tfay of making a 4e f£nce'. No day has yet appeared for taking into confiderarion the petitions against the slave trade ; the Livtrp3sf peoplehave a committee now iff towji to conduct the couteft on their part, 'fhd debates, it is supposed, will rather be animated and pathetic, as etie&ua!, as po licy is the opposing argument, and which is the defendant cf fiavery both at home and abroad. The argument, however', may be briefly resolved into one plain quetiion—Are any motives of policy fufficient to jutiify the purchafc of our fellow creatures, and the use of them a3 flares.? When that is autwered, the debate is at an end; Ever since Ivfr Pitt’s India Bill went over, difeontent has been general in Calcutta. Lord Cornwallis is apprehensive of an inlurreftion, in conleqtience of the unpopularity of that bill; and he finds that the company’* troops are not a little infedetl withfhe geucral diflatisfadion. Hehce he thought it neccflary to require a le inforcement of the King’s troopsi Robbery and house. breaking are arrived jo an enormous pitch at Baris; a Angular cir cumftancehappeiied not long fmce in the house of a tiadefman in that city. Some thieves ha<f cut a hole in the fliop door, large enough to pass the arm of a man, so as to be able to open the bolts. A person who Jay in the tiiop, having watched their operation, quickly provided himfelf with a tirong cord, and ve ' ry dexterously wound it so securely about?’the wrist of the man who made the attempt, that he could not draw it bark. The accomplices on the out fide finding it impoflible to relieve their companion, and allured that they must bedifeovered if they left him in that fituatioh, immediately cut Off the wretch’s head, threw it into the river, and eleaped. The guard palling by soon after, and finding the headless tiuuk at the door, ordered it to be opened > the fli'>pman not knowing what had pafled on the outside, replied laughing,' that their com rade might opeu it, for that his hand was close to the bok. The guard then explaining themfclves, the door was opened, and the body earned to the bone-house. Two of his Sicilian Majefly’s gallies, be ing on a ciuize off Magadore, on\lie coaftof Algiers, puifued and took a pirate of twenty gun., and one hundred men, who had come * of port ihat very morning.—The prize ■%s fentto Naples; and whilst the vetfel was lving at the mole, under a guard of three hundred a young nobleman then bathing was seized with a cramp, and imme diately funk*i» the presence of numbers, who attempted notfihig for his relief. A Moor, who happened to fetj this unfortuuate accident from the gunwale of tf^pri ze, intiamly jump ed into the water, fwanfc towards the place wheie the nobleman went‘dbwn, and in his rife caught him iu h.s arms, tie&a handkerchief round his flioulder?, one encPtof which he fatiened to- his own, and thus CTSjbarratied, brought him fafe on lliors. Thefdrowned person soon recovered, and was carried home in his father’s carriage, which waited on the bank. The Marquis de Palucchi, whose fun was thus preserved by a Barbarian, would not be outdone in generality. He immediately went to the palace, and being introduced by General Atton, an Engliih gentleman in the King s service, fell on his knees, and begged the liberty of the gallant Moor Your re quest, replied his Majesty, is both reaLnabie and humane; the Moor is your’s, and you may dilpofe of him as you please. The re mainder of the crew are mine, and perpetual Haves by, the laws of war; but thef are free fiom this moment. Ten righteous persons would have saved Sodom from the wrath of the Almighty ; and (hall not one gallant and virtuous man, who has ritked his life for h:s euemy, and refeued* fellow-citizen from im minent death, merit eije pardon of a lew companions from an earthly monarch ? Next d jjL an order was publilhed for rcleafmg the vdffel, which tailed for Algieis, amidst the acclamations of the populace; aud byway 3 thanks saluted the palace with twtnty-fivA and the city with twelve guns. NEW-YORK, Jpril n . ThtC HA RG E of bis Honor Chief Just ie/t Morris, delivered to the Grand Jury, loft IVtdnejday , at the City Hail . Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, ALL offences committed within this city and county, from treasons to trespasses, are the objects of your enquiry ; and the Iheriff’s ca lender will furnift you with those offenders that are in custody, and their offences. The late public tumults in this city, require yous immediate and vigilant attention : Common leport ascribes their rife to-fomevery indecent aud impious plunder of dead bodies frona then gtaves in the several church yards. If tbii report is founded on truth, which un doubtedly it is, you will readily account for tin; releutmem that has seized tU minds of the remaining relatives of such deceased persons. * It is an apology for many indiferetions; but gentlemen, our laws aie competent topunilh any degree of guilt, an d a Vigilant and mi nute enquiry by so refpedable a Grand Jury, cannot tail to fix the offence upon the real of tenders, that they may be brought to justice, the laws of our country fatibfied, and the minds of our good citizens quieted, in the tuiiefl confidence that the allies of their rela 111C3 rest in peace in their graves. Permit me, gentlemen, to press this bufi nels upon you, and to beg it may be the firlk bulineis you attend to, the peace and good or der of the city being of the uiinoft importance to evei;y good citizen. I have the fulleti confidence, gentlemen, that when the public are fatisfied that you have undertaken thebufinefs, and that a care ful and attentive examination will by you be mauc > uneahneis will cease, and order will he reitored. When this Is gone through, it becomes your cuty, gentlemen, to enquire into the late not; and though it may be palliated in the nrit stages of it, yet after every search waa made to the withes of the people, the attack upon the gaol, and the inlults offered to the Magistrates, were altogether inexcu table, and in their teudency threaten the very tub vex lion cf Government*. You will there ioie make it an object of your attention and . : examination With tbefe observations, and a feitett reliance on your vigorous exertions* i dumifs you. It is hoped that out houeft countrymen who feei the nurdens of the present day, or com plain of want of bulinefs, will apply them-, leives with assiduity, to agriculture/ In Z ciem times, Kings laid their feepters proftrato . .° n earth > and tUf ned the tufted sod Could we divest our minds of trifling views ■° f traA and condne ourselves to tillage and manufacturing, we lhould at once become a potent, great and independent people. But uis in vain to will, for plenty or wealth, while we difdam to guide the plough, and lafeiy call the peafaut’s noble uAcf lervile and meaui How firange are ,h e viciffondes of life! A gentleman from Sangate, in Vermont, in forms us, that the famous Gen. Shays, (so called) fronr the oommand of an army, is now at that place, reduced to the humble em ployment of making brooms for a livelihood. AUGUST A, June 14. Extraa of a le: terJr cm a gentleman in North - C arohna to bis jnend in this town, dated The Spanilh Ambaflador has presented Congreis with a Memorial on Indian Affairs, and fays << If the Georgians do not treat hi! Mallei s friends, the Indians, with more ju stice and humanity, bis Catholic Majesty will - think himfelf obliged to interpose on their behalf.” This I believe may be depended on.” From the Kentuckey Gazette of Jpril 4. It is with the most- sensible concern we an nounce to the public, the capture of three boats on the Ohio, near the Big Miami, by the savages. Familiarized as we have been for ievcral weeks past, to murder and robbe ry, at almost every point of our frontiers, the fynipathy of all ranks has been excited in au extraordinary degree by this deeply af fecting catastrophe. Among tire paffengera iu ihclc bbatSj i; w ith great 1 egret we men-